Is Panel Bucks Legit or a Scam? (See Why It Is NOT Worth It)

Panel Bucks Rating


You can find a few survey recommendations by joining Panel Bucks, BUT it is important to know that you cannot earn on the site itself which might not be clear before you join.

Panel Bucks looks like a professional platform and as a great way to earn some extra money when you first come to the website.

But is Panel Bucks legit and really a great opportunity, or is it a scam to stay away from?

I have tested the site myself and compared it to the MANY other online survey options I have tested over the years.

Let me just reveal right away that it is NOT one of my favorite survey options, and there are some important details you need to know before joining.

This Panel Bucks review will give you an inside look and show you what you really get.

Then you know exactly what to expect and can judge for yourself whether it is the right opportunity for you or not.

What is Panel Bucks, and what does the site offer?

When I first came to panelbucks.com, it seemed very familiar.

The site looks more or less exactly like a few other panels I have reviewed in the past called SaySo4Profit and Panel PayDay.

Since there is no info on the sites about who is behind, it is difficult to say if it is the same people behind. During my research, I, however, found indications beyond the look of the sites that indicate it is owned by the same people.

But what is most important for you to decide if it is a good survey opportunity or not is to know what it offers you as a member.

From just taking a quick look at the site, it looks like any other survey panel. It says you can get access to daily paid surveys and it is free to join.

panel bucks free membership claim
What Panel Bucks says it offers.

That sounds great, and I love testing new sites that have this opportunity.

However, I also spotted something strange about the statement you can see in the image above. I have tested hundreds of paid survey sites, and I have never come across a legit survey site that charges you to join.

Nonetheless, Panel Bucks writes that it offers free membership for a limited time only.

First of all, as mentioned, a legit survey site would never charge a fee to join, so this is a huge red flag.

However, they have had this claim about limited spots for a long time, so they are clearly not planning to actually start charging. It is just a trick to push you to sign up right away.

No matter what, it is, however, not transparent and unethical to use tricks like this, in my opinion.

But let's look into what you really get so that at least you know what you are getting into if you decide to join and can make an informed decision.

I have created a video that gives you an inside look of Panel Bucks so you can see for yourself exactly what you get. Just be aware that the design has been updated since I recorded the video, but what it offers is still the exact same thing.

You can also read all the details below the video:

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What happens after you join?

Since I have tested A LOT of survey sites, I was a bit suspicious before joining Panel Bucks as I spotted some things that made me suspicious. What I suspected turned out to be true.

That is that Panel Bucks is not as such a survey site where you can earn by taking surveys on the site itself. It is what is called a survey aggregator, which means it just gives you access to a list of survey sites you can then go and join.

Sites like this can be helpful, but in my experience, they, however, rarely are, as most of them just give superficial info and are not focused on showing you the best opportunities but just on promoting what pays them.

So let's look at what kind of aggregator Panel Bucks is.

The first you need to do is fill out a short sign-up form. Then the next step gives a good indication of what the panel offers.

You get to a screen with offers from partners.

panel bucks sign up offers
After signing up, you get to several screens with partner offers.

Nothing wrong with having partner offers on websites. Most website owners have partners in some ways to be able to cover the cost of running and developing a website. I have that myself as well – if not, it would just not be possible for most website owners to keep them running.

However, before you sign-up, it might not be clear what you sign up for.

You get to a screen where you can see several offers. You have to go through 6 screens with offers before you can finish the sign-up process.

Many of them do not even have anything to do with paid surveys and are offers for, for example, credit options, etc.

In my opinion, the offers are not very relevant for what you might expect when signing up for a survey site, and it is a lot to have to go through 6 screens of offers.

When you finally get to the end, you are told you have to confirm your email to get access to the member area. So if you check your inbox, you will have an email with a link.

panel bucks email confirmation
The confirm link took me somewhere else than expected.

So I clicked the link to confirm – guess what? I was taken to another offer from one of their partners and not to the member area.

It turned out there was a small link at the top of the email to actually confirm my membership, but the main link in the email was to an offer, even though it said it was to confirm.

This, to me, already showed that the focus was not on quality and us as users but on promoting as much as possible.

But I then finally got to the member area. Here is what you then can find on the inside:

Option 1 – List of survey sites

As already mentioned earlier, Panel Bucks is a survey aggregator, and that means the main thing you can find in the member area is a list of other survey sites you can then go and join.

panel bucks survey examples
You get access to a small list of sites you can join.

The list is very small (it was around 10 sites when I joined), you do not get a lot of info that can help you find the best options for you, and they promote quite a few very poor survey sites that are just a waste of time, in my opinion.

There definitely are a few good sites on the list, but most of them are just not worth it. They are, for example, promoting a site like Survey Club as a way to earn cash by participating in online surveys. But in fact, Survey Club is just another survey aggregator.

They are also promoting another site that is mainly an aggregator called iSurvey World. This means that you have to join Panel Bucks to get access to a short list of actual paid survey sites.

When you then follow their recommendation, you might think you can earn on one of the sites mentioned above and go there to sign up. They are then also just giving you access to a list of survey sites you have to go and sign up for.

This can make it a very long process to ever get to the sites where you can actually earn if you do not have a lot of experience with paid surveys and cannot quickly spot which sites are actually paying you to take surveys and which ones are just giving you access to offers they promote.

Option 2 – Access to community

One more thing you used to be able to find on Panel Bucks was access to a so-called community.

panel bucks community
You used to get access to a Facebook group.

This option has been removed from the website since I first tested it, but I still wanted to include it here, as it revealed something important.

This is what revealed to me that Panel Bucks likely is owned by the same people that have SaySo4Profit and Panel PayDay.

The reason for this is that they have the exact same community option, and all of them lead to the same Facebook group.

In my opinion, a Facebook group is without much value.

As already explained in this review, I do not think the quality of the offers you get on Panel Bucks is very high, and it is more focused on promoting than giving you useful info.

In my opinion, it is the exact same thing in the Facebook group. I would not really call it a community by just a promotional channel.

How do you get paid?

Now you know more about what you really get access to if you join Panel Bucks.

If it is not clear yet, I just want to make it perfectly clear here – you do NOT actually get paid on Panel Bucks.

You can follow some of their links and recommendations and join other sites. On some of these sites, you will then be able to earn, but on some of them, you will just get access to more offers where you have to go to other sites.

So you do NOT earn directly on Panel Bucks. Not that it is necessarily wrong or that you cannot get anything out of being a member then.

But I just do not think it is transparent enough what to expect, and that is why I want to make it perfectly clear.

How much money can you make?

By now, you definitely know that you will not actually make money on Panel Bucks.

But how much money can you, in general, make if you follow some of their recommendations and join other sites?

Well, in my experience, the survey sites Panel Bucks promotes are far from the best survey sites. You can earn a bit on some of the sites, but just remember that several of the sites it promotes are just other aggregators.

So it will not give you access to huge earning opportunities, and you can end up spending quite a lot of time testing the offers they recommend to find the ones that are actually worth it, in my opinion.

Who can join Panel Bucks?

If you still want to give Panel Bucks a try, then it is only available in the US. It used to be available in 4 countries.

panel bucks countries
Panel Bucks has changed its terms and is now only available in the US.

You can now see on the sign-up form that you can only register if you are a resident of the US and above 18 years old.

However, if you live in other countries and really want to join, you can actually join from anywhere.

No matter where you live, there are, however, better survey sites in your country, in my opinion.

Can you get support?

I always look into the opportunities to get support when testing survey sites.

In the case of Panel Bucks, there is a contact form on their website you can use. Just be aware that they state that they will not respond to messages that have already been answered in their FAQ section.

Personally, I have not tried to contact them, so I do not know how responsive they are.

Final verdict – legit or scam?

So is Panel Bucks legit or a scam?

Well, I have gathered all the info I could and tested it myself to help you make an informed decision about this.

To help you get a better overview, let's finish this review by summing up the pros and cons to help you decide.

pros

Pros:

  • Free to join
  • Some survey sites it promotes are good
cons

Cons:

  • Not very clear what you get before joining
  • A lot of promotional offers that have nothing to do with surveys
  • Poor Facebook group
  • Not any in-depth information
  • You do NOT actually earn on the site

You can find a few survey recommendations on Panel Bucks that are worth following. You just need to be aware that you will not be able to earn on the site itself.

In my opinion, the biggest problem with Panel Bucks is that it is not very clear what you can expect before joining, and there is no real in-depth info to help you find the best options for you.

And you can end up spending a lot of time finding actual paid surveys you can take as many of the offers it promotes are just for other sites that are collections of links.

For these reasons, it is NOT a site I recommend.

There are so many great paid survey sites you can join directly. You can, for example, check out the best survey sites in your country here.

All of these are actual survey sites with earning opportunities directly on the sites and, in my opinion, better use of time as you know they pay and do not just send you to other sites.

If you have any comments, questions, or have any experiences with Panel Bucks yourself, I would love to hear from you in a comment below.

8 thoughts on “Is Panel Bucks Legit or a Scam? (See Why It Is NOT Worth It)”

  1. I just got and email from panelbucks. And it was telling me I won money , but I don’t know how true it could be so, I’m asking for help. Is it an fraud website or it is recommendable.

    Reply
    • Hi Roshunda,

      It is NOT true. Panel Bucks sends those types of emails all the time but it is just to get you to click and take you to some of the offers they get paid to promote.

      You have not won and you will also not be able to earn on Panel Bucks in general. They just send you promotions and unfortunately use they use these clickbait titles to get you to open the emails.

      Hope this helps.

      Mikael

      Reply
  2. Hi, thanks for the information. I would like to have some means of contact with you to give you very good information and to know your opinion. Greetings from Venezuela

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  3. I have answered a lot of surveys thru Panel Buck and did the paid participants to get the reward. I now have a PayPal card but don’t know how to send card information to receive my pay. Even those that were supposed to be mailed to me. I have never received. If I were to add up all pay outs it is easily over a $1000 plus. The site ask me to set up direct deposit but want like me add PayPal which was in email. Setup want let me so how can I get my money for surveys and my prizes Thank You, Stacey McKinney

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